More Photos

I have added more photos to my Blog. I know it has been some time since I have placed anything on here.
There is also some of my illustrations on there. Under my Information to the right there is a slideshow
which has a link to more photos on Redbubble of mine. Take a look and let me know what you think of it.
Thanks

Old Friend.

I like to take this moment to apologize for not keeping up with my posts lately. With a new job and other personal things happening I have neglected to post any blogs. That said, i like to take the time to welcome and old friend that I have gotten back in touch with. My old schedule. With my previous job, I had a schedule everyone I have told said they would love to have. 8 days on and 6 days off. Being laid-off and finding a new job with the company that took over my old position put me into the every day schedule of the Nine-to-fiver. Frequent occurrences with the new company has lead to having the schedule, again. This has lead to an old friend returning for me.
Though, with this friend returning, I am in lieu on to where to go first. Take a road trip somewhere, or just stay around? I made a type of promise to myself a couple of years ago, that I have well kept to. This schedule in the past has help me keep it. I am looking to keep that promise again with the return of the schedule.

Hitting the Road Continued

Like to applogize for not finishing my Hitting the Road post at the time of my trip finished. Things came up, so here it is now.
Last I left you at Mt Rushmore and some awesome views and pictures of the Presidents carved into a mountain side. It is amazing how humans can create something out of anything.
After spending the day and overnight in the Rushmore area, I then headed to my final destination (but, I had to leave out a stop that I had planned on going to before the last destination, it was Devils Tower, Money situation, but hey that is the type of trip I had planned for also.) Rocky Mountain National Park was my destination at this time. I left Mt Rushmore with close to 70 degrees the day before I got to Colorado. The day I left for the park it was overcast and then started to rain. When I got into the park, bout 7 hours later it was snowing.

I got to shoot some cool wildlife in and out of the park. With the drive in I had seen and photographed Pronghorns.




When I got to the National Park I asked the ranger how the wildlife was that day. He said that it must be good since no-one came back to tell him that it wasn't who entered before me. Not even a mile into the Park I saw some cars in a parking area and looking up the mountain. I parked and got out to see what they saw. Bull Elks on the mountain side.




I headed more into the park and kept taking shots as I went.





More Elk



If I actually showed you all the elk I had seen this blog would be an all elk blog and not a trip blog. I have may other cool shots of more Elk but I do not want to use up all this and bore you with anymore elks.

I do have a few pics to snow you how much show and what the scale is of the mountains out there.

The scale, Can you find the Hikers?


Here is the Snow....




Here is a pic of the town I stay at outside the Park. Estes Park, Colorado


Oh, and of course a pic of me in the park

Hitting the Road

I decided bout a month or two ago to travel the U.S. since I was being laid off. The way I wanted to fund my trip was to use my 401K, but I was talked out of it. With in the last few week I had found a new job and thought I take this road trip for my last six days off of the type of schedule I have with my old Job. I decided to head out to South Dakota in my Jeep to go to Mt Rushmore and also hit the Badlands. My reality of my trip came true this past Thursday March 22. I am hear writing of my first two days of my trip and have Photos to share. The first day was long day. I worked the night before and used up my last 2.5 hours of personal time to get some sleep before I headed out on the road at 6 am.
Once I was on the road, Around 3pm EST I got a call from my dad. While talking to him, he informed me of the town he went to college in. Luckily the town was with-in my route to Mt. Rushmore. The town is call Yankton and the college he attended was Yankton College. I found out that the college no longer is a College but the campus is still there. The college was turned into a minimal security federal prison. Here are some pics of the college and the train station in town.




I have to say this. Since I spent the night in the town and went to visit it, 2 generations of our family has been in Yankton, SD.

I decided to through away the route I planed on taking on Friday to head to Mt. Rushmore. Rather than taking the main Interstate I took the State Route and headed through the Badlands on a friends advice. Thanks for the advice from both my dad and friend. Here are a some photos from that visit.







Then I headed onto Mt Rushmore. It is amazing to me what a human brain and artistic power can do, especial in each time era.







Hope you like my first two days of my trip

Venting....

Whoa, you have to admit that losing one's job can be a great thing when you first look at it. Then the reality hits in when you start to look for a new job with either the same wage or increase wage in order to keep or make your lively hood better. I have been placed into this situation for the first time in my life. Losing one's job that is not due to my error or my control. I am welcome in to my family that has had this lucky streak of losing there job(s). My dad told me that we have all been there. Even my younger sister had even been there. Yet, this news and the continuation of job hunting has not brought me down like the other co-workers I work with. One, told me I am more resilient to bad news or bad things that happen to me than she is. I can recall about 5 people who starting flipping out, crying or throwing a fit when we all received the news. I just say its life and move on. Ranting and raving over something that is uncontrolled by you (example: Losing one's job) will not bring that job back. It may cause more damage to you in the long run. To me, if something is ment to be it was ment to be. This was ment for me, why I do not know. Theory, is to move on to bigger and better things that I would not have normaly have done if I was content at where I am at. You will probably never know the reason why, but if you did would you want to take that path or know what the outcome of your life? I believe that if you know what is ahead that life would be really boring and why live. You may not agree with my thinking on life and I will not ridicule you for it because this is my way of thinking and you have you own way as well.

Sorry for a depressing post this time. I just need to vent some words and to do what I do when life is down, look on the bright side. I know there is a bigger and better job for me out there - wish me the best at finding it.

First trip of 2007

Back in the beginning of the month I took a 2000 mile round trip in my Jeep Wrangler. I started in Colulmbus, Ohio and drove down to Alanta, GA to visit my Cousins. The big highlight of the Alanta trip was that I was able to see the Inuagural Ceremony of the Governer. That was so sur-real to me. I was able to do things that I thought wouldn't happen in my life. Walking on the floor of Philips Arena along with walking through the tunnel where the Hockey and Basketball players come out from the locker rooms. I took a good amount of photos during the ceremony, but did something really stupid. I transfer the photos to my laptop to have stored and erased them from the camera's card. While I was transfer the pictures that I had take during the trip to an external, I was dumb enought not to double check myself on the external to see if I did transfer them and i deleted them from the laptop. STUPID, STUPID. Another thing that was planned for me by my cousins was a trip to Atlanta's Aquarium. It is suppost to be the largest in the US or World. That was a trip in itself. They have a tank that is 600 million gallons that can hold 6 Forty-foot Whale Sharks. At that time, they had 4 Fourteen-Foot Whale sharks picture below.

But my favorite exhibite I will say has to be the Seadragon tank. I do not think that there is any other animal on this planet, except one that can top this creature for the best camoflage in its environment as this creature. The other one would have to be the walking stick insect. The Seadragon and LeafDragons move slowly but has such a grace it is awesome to watch and view.



I could go on and on about the aquarium and also add so many photos of what I took and saw there. That was done on my last day in Alanta, Tuesday.
Wednesday morning I hopped back into my Wrangler and headed west toward MT. Home, Arkansas. Visiting an old Co-worker (who actually switch me from spinning fishing to Fly fishing). Of course the main reason for heading there was to do what my Blog title FLY FISHING. My friend lives not to far from the White River (which is know for its Trout) and also where the Buffalo River (First National River in the U.S.) drains into. The weather didn't really coopperate, plus it had made me cut my trip in Arkansas short. I did get two days of Fishing in. Did manage to catch 4 trout, 2 each day. The Ice storm was the cause of my early dismissal.



Here are some pics from Arkansas




Here is my friend Chris who I visited and fished with, along with the new addition to his family Mocha



So, since the Ice storm had me concerned about getting stuck on the mountain where Chris and his family lived. I jumped back in the Wrangler and headed to my original starting point of the trip. Columbus, Ohio.

2,000 miles and 7 days later I was home again.
Good to be home....until the next trip

Finally, Here @ Last!!!!

Guess, I broke down and finally join the blog age. It kinda started with my sister. Every conversation we have on the phone, she would always tell me that you should start your own blog and post photos of my trips: fly fishing and where ever I go.
She stated the same saying with our last conversaion last night. "You should start your own Blog, and post pictures so I can see." I guess I broke down and now I am here. Forgive, the choppiness of this blog site since I am learning the rope of on how to create and post information on here.
Also, I hope you enjoy my Trips and photos with future blogging.